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- technews@radiation.party
In which the talking pinball machine goes TILT
Interesting how the human half of discussion interprets the incoherent rambling as evidence of sentience rather than the seemingly more sensible lack thereof1. I’m not sure why the idea of disoriented rambling as a sign of consciousness exists in the popular imagination. If I had to make a guess2 it might have something to do with the tropes of divine visions and speaking in tongues combined with the view of life/humanity/sapience as inherently painful, either in a sort of buddhist sense or in the somewhat overlapping nihilist/depressive sense.
[1] To something of their credit, they don’t seem to go full EY and acknowledge it’s probably just a glitch.
[2] I’d make a terrible LessWronger since I don’t like presenting my gut feelings as theorem-like absolute truths.
oh chatgpt’s magic is almost entirely just dark patterns. one thing I’d be curious about if source code ever leaked is if the model’s failure cases are being massaged — a bunch of people have started to notice that when GPT enters a failure state, it tends to pull from the parts of its corpus involving religious or sci-fi imagery, which strikes me as yet another manipulative technique among the many that ChatGPT implements to imply there’s something complex happening when there isn’t
I’ll have to pay attention to that. usually I just avoid the content because almost all conversations around it make my blood boil
similarly: the accuracy scoring (both per-prompt and general session shit) almost certainly has someone pulling that into revision/avoidance management. which will eventually end up shaping it into something even more hilariously milquetoast